At Night, The New Poll Constantly Haunts My Dreams

[Jason]

Once again, the last poll was horrible, so we have a new one on the front page: Does the story matter to you in a strategy game?

Are there any titles you can point to that actually did have an interesting storyline or are they all a blur of base-building and rushing?

 

[Naked_Lunch]

It's not so much the story but the setting for me. I couldn't give two damns about how the King needs help to defend his kingdom against the Evil Threat(tm) but if the setting is really neat, I'll be much more interested. This goes for unit types, missions, et cetera.

 

[kingcomrade]

Are there any titles you can point to that actually did have an interesting storyline or are they all a blur of base-building and rushing?

Hmm...nope. I guess Starcraft was pretty cool, not an incredible story but not a bad one. I can't think of any other game that doesn't have an utterly terrible storyline. Warcraft 3 has some of the stupidest dialogue...I've been replaying it lately and I've skipped every single cutscene, even though I try to follow the story at least a little.

Since in most RTS games the primary form of play is a "skirmish" mode, story is pretty irrelevant and the setting becomes hugely important by constrast. Starcraft's setting is pretty cool, and while the setting itself for Total Annihilation isn't all that great the units are. I do kinda like Warcraft 3's stuff, campy, cartoony, and unoriginal as it is the Blizzard folks know art direction.

 

[Atrokkus]

Did I mention Starcraft?

 

[Jason]

Speaking of Starcraft, behold the magic of Starcraft Origami!

 

[Atrokkus]

How lovely!

 

[Naked_Lunch]

That's pretty frickin' sweet.

 

[ad hominem]

if TB counts, Age of Wonders II and Shadow Magic had storylines that didn't suck sweaty, hairy ass. They only sucked smoother, reasonably hygienic ass.

 

[sheek]

I think a good story adds to a good game but I'm not allowed to vote.

 

[Jason]

You have to log in through the TCancer main page to vote. It's that way because DU hates democracy in general and you in particular.

 

[sheek]

Thanks for the tip. I'm now registered (with a password Dark_Underlord won't like, haha).

 

[dagorkan]

Hello alt.

 

[Jason]

You should have been able to use your Codex log in through the TCancer page. You don't need to register twice. But, hey, if it makes you feel twice as special...

 

[sheek]

Obviously I tried that before and it didn't work.

[And now I can't log out of TC, it logs me out of RPGCodex instead]